Foreign News: Power

To meet the bachelor President of France (Gaston Doumergue has no "official
hostess") at the U. S. Embassy in Paris last week. Ambassador
and Mrs. Walter Evans Edge assembled not the impotent dukes and
counts of the beau monde but aristocrats of another sort, people whose
names stand in France for economic power. Up from Lyons came M. Edmond
Gillet, calm, wise, secretive "silk King of France.'' In bustled
short and forceful M. Andre Homberg, bald but bewhiskered* president
of the French Line, of the Societe General (one of the largest
French banks), high executive...